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[polar acorn]

I don't know, why does the official documentation for CharacterController call .Move twice in one Update?

It can work in FixedUpdate, it's literally instant. It doesn't depend on time at all so it doesn't matter which update loop it's in

Someone asked about the performance impact of something and you said "If you use FixedUpdate it's fine" when that is not even remotely what FixedUpdate does. Things don't take less processing time because you put them in FixedUpdate

It's still going to have exactly as much of an effect on your framerate

[frail hawk]

that sounds better than what you said before

but nothing wrong with what i said too, so the whole conversation is actually redundant

[polar acorn]

I mean, that is what I said before. I basically led with that.

[polar acorn]

The problem with what you said is that it implies FixedUpdate makes things more performant

[naive pawn]

if you have a higher physics tick rate than framerate, then fixedupdate would make it perform worse, technically
not sure what you're trying to argue here - the "if you use FixedUpdate" part makes it wrong

[low copper]

I can't figure out how to turn off a light. Starting the scene in pitch black with intensity 0 works. However doing it via code seems to trigger the material / shader (can be viewed in screenshot). Any idea whats going on? How I can truely turn off the light with code?

public class LoadingScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Light[] lights;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        lights = Object.FindObjectsByType(typeof(Light), FindObjectsSortMode.None) as Light[];
        foreach (Light light in lights)
        {
            light.intensity = 0;
            light.enabled = false;
            Debug.Log(light);
        }
    }
}

[grand snow]

if the particles are a child then do SetActive() on the light gameobject instead

you are only changing the light intensity then disabling the light component, leaving the particles un touched

Ah mb the lights are children of the particles

[low copper]

Yeah...thats what I was typing

[grand snow]

so the solution is to SetActive() the main parent

[low copper]

FireParticleSystem?

I would prefer to keep the torch + torchholder in the game.

Does setActive remove them?

[rocky canyon]

yea, SetActive() will deactivate and activate the gameobject
.enabled = true/false will deactivate and activate the component

[grand snow]

it changes the active state of the gameobject which then affects its components and child objects

This is day 1 stuff

[rocky canyon]

may could build the particle system over the torch and then when u disable it u have the placeholder there in place behind it

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SetActive.html

[low copper]

I knew what setactive did prior

Thank you for your help. I will try different approaches

[marble orbit]

hello I need help how could i fix it. It doesnt show the code and I couldnt edit it

[safe garnet]

drag the script from the unity editor to visual studio

[rich ice]

make sure you correctly set up your !IDE

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[grand snow]

you can double click a script in the unity editor and it will open in the configured IDE 💡

[safe garnet]

sometimes it doesnt work or will open a blank visual studio on slower devices, the drag tends to always work

[grand snow]

miss configuration is the cause, a drag + drop may just open the file as a "miscellaneous file"

[strange jackal]

the following code
interaction_text.text = selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>().GetItemName();

is causing the error
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[rough granite]

is selectionTransform null? no? then is there an InteractableObject script in it? yes? then what is GetItemName() doing?

[strange jackal]

I can return the getname to a debug line, so that works... it seems to be the

interaction_text.text part that is failing

private void Start()
{
interaction_text = IteractionText.GetComponent<Text>();
}

[rough granite]

how is this any relevant to the last code? also does IteractionText (spelled incorrectly btw) have a Text script?

[marble orbit]

whats the wrong on my code the ball should follow my mouse curser but it going to the bottom rigth on my screen and not following

[rough granite]

shouldn't use lerp for movement

[strange jackal]

its where I declare the interation_text

but the key problem is when I add the .text

[rough granite]

ah i see

what variable is the Text?

[strange jackal]

I am trying to update the text in in a text box on a canvas

[rough granite]

yeah but what is the class type i guess sorry bad with words but send the declaration of it

[strange jackal]

the InteractionText game object is a Text box

[rough granite]

it should be "TextMeshProUGUI" as far as i know

[marble orbit]

wdym?

[rough granite]

dont use lerp for movement simple as that

i mean i guess you can but far too many people use it wrong

https://chicounity3d.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/how-to-lerp-like-a-pro/
this too https://www.blueraja.com/blog/404/how-to-use-unity-3ds-linear-interpolation-vector3-lerp-correctly

[sour adder]

You don't get the mouse screen position from the mouse anywhere?

[strange jackal]

now the following code
interaction_text = InteractionText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
has error message
can't convert type

[rough granite]

maybe give the whole !code

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[rough granite]

but where you declare it at the top you have to make sure it's the same

eg

[strange jackal]

that was it! thanks!

all good now

[marble orbit]

Heres what i did

[low copper]

I want to enable/disable "Analog Glitch Volume" and "Digital Glitch Volume" and modify their values (intensity, horizontal shake etc) via script. See screenshot below. I can't figure out how to get access to them. But beyond this specific case I'd like to learn how to get access to all values. Is there a trick? I THINK I need to use

[SerializeField] VolumeProfile volumeProfile;

I'm not sure if "Analog Glitch Volume" is a components. I'm not clear how to get their name nor their object variable type? For example I found someone use :

DepthOfField dof;
if (volumeProfile.TryGet<DepthOfField>(out dof)) { depthOfFieldValue = dof; }

But I just don't understand how people know the names/variable types to use. If I can't get them from the inspector is there a list all of them available or something. I would appreciate any help.

[dull grail]

Is there a built-in way to check if pointer over ui element? I saw i could use eventSystem IsPointerOverGameObject but it's page marked as legacy and that in unity 2021 planned to get better way to check it but i can't find anything. My editor version is 2022 so i think there should be some better ways than checking it with raycasts

[rough granite]

Pointer as in mouse?

if so just this will work

private void OnMouseOver()
{
            
}

[ivory bobcat]

Or IPointer events https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerEnterHandler.html

[dull grail]

Thank you

[wintry quarry]

That function still works.
The documentation was simply moved to the UI package documentation site.

[lofty canopy]

using UnityEngine;

public class MouseManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsDesktop;
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsPlacement;
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsInteractable;

    private Card selectedCard = null;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && !GameManager.Instance.gameEnded && Time.timeScale != 0f)
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, whatIsInteractable))
            {
                if (hit.collider != null && selectedCard == null)
                {
                    selectedCard = hit.transform.GetComponent<Card>();
                }
            }
        }

        if (selectedCard != null)
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, whatIsDesktop))
            {
                selectedCard.MoveToPoint(hit.point + new Vector3(0f, 2f, 0f), Quaternion.identity);
            }
        }
    }
}

I'm having trouble with this script.

new Vector3(0f, 2f, 0f) specifically this part.

cause the gameObject is raised by 2f on the y, it throws off the ratios on the x and z. So as I move closer to the edge of the screen it moves away from the mouse cursor.

Anyway to account for this?

I realise it's a perspective thing.

[sour fulcrum]

(We don't know what MoveToPoint does)

[lofty canopy]

Card.cs

private Vector3 targetPoint;
private Quaternion targetRot;

private void Update()
{
    transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, targetPoint, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRot, rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
}

public void MoveToPoint(Vector3 pointToMoveTo, Quaternion rotToMatch)
{
    pointToMoveTo = new Vector3(pointToMoveTo.x, pointToMoveTo.y, pointToMoveTo.z);
    targetPoint = pointToMoveTo;
    targetRot = rotToMatch;
}

[sour fulcrum]

by the way, sorry to nitpick but just a quick note that your free to take or leave.

Worth thinking about the priority of your conditionals in situations like this. None of this code will do anything when selectedCard is null so ideally that check should be at the start of the logic, so you avoid needless work. The other conditionals like getmousedown and gameended etc. are doing that kinda thing correctly 😄.

(also good diligence on the null checking but afaik a hit.collider will never be null)

[lofty canopy]

I'm refactoring my code. Moving all the raycast logic which resides in an Update() for Card.cs and just using something called MouseController.cs. I'm basically reversing everything or whatever.

So if the selectedCard is null that means I'm not holding a card to place somewhere.

[magic imp]

How do I make something move randomly?

[rich ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[magic imp]

Like uhh, this guy

and he chases you

[lofty canopy]

It just removes the need for private bool isDragging etc.

[rich ice]

go check !learn first.

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[rich ice]

if you've already done that then it should be simple enough using a navmesh and a few pre-defined nodes

[magic imp]

What unity version should I download?

[rich ice]

usually you'd want to pick the latest LTS version

[lofty canopy]

You have two methods of Randomization, both are pseudo-random generation.

There's Unity's Random function or C# System.Random.

[lofty canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5HtjUun5g

[magic imp]

So the latest LTS is 6.0, time to get that I guess???

[lofty canopy]

If you'll be working on a project for a longtime and want stability, Long Term Support, is generally the way to go.

If you want to test out the bleeding edge updates from Unity go with the Tech? version.

[magic imp]

when will it end support?

[lofty canopy]

Just watch the video I posted.

[lofty canopy]

I just haven't got there in the code so when I click again, depending on the context of the location, it will either return the card where I picked it up from or place it in the placement zone. I then plan to set selectedCard back to null so I can grab another card, etc.

[sour fulcrum]

Yeah no stress, Just pointed it out in case that was a new insight to you, keep cooking 😄

[lofty canopy]

hit.collider will never be null?

[sour fulcrum]

As far as I know

Otherwise it couldn't be hit 😄

[lofty canopy]

cause of the LayerMask?

what if I raycast off into the void.

[sour fulcrum]

your using the returned bool off Physics.Raycast

that's your null check here

[lofty canopy]

Ah, you are correct! I guess some people can be wrong on the Internet.

[sour fulcrum]

.transform and .collider can be programically null sure, but logically if it's in the context of a conditional raycast they will never be null because there isn't a situation in which the raycast could return positive

[lofty canopy]

That's the only bit of code I was like "Eh, whatever" and chucked it in, not really thinking about it.

[sour fulcrum]

ye its a hyper-nitpick dw

[lofty canopy]

but yeah, how would I go about changing the x and y position ratios the further I move to the edge of the screen?

[sour fulcrum]

For your actual issue, Might need a video? Not quite sure what the issue is and also unsure on what you mean by throwing the x and z ratios off

[lofty canopy]

@sour fulcrum first video is with the new Vector(0f, 2f, 0f) added on to the hit.point.

Second video I changed it from 2f to 0f. It's a perspective viewpoint thing. Just wondering if there is an easy way to fix it rather than ratio the x and z positions.

[zenith wren]

how would I go about accessing a bool from another script without having to add a reference every instance?

[lofty canopy]

public bool isThisABoolean { get; private set }

make it public?

[zenith wren]

It already is

[sour fulcrum]

you need to reference every instance, why does that trouble you?

[naive pawn]

if you don't have a reference to an instance, you can't get an instance property since you don't have anywhere to get it from

[ivory bobcat]

Referencing the specific instance is the preferred approach but if there's a lot and you're wanting to decrease repetition, you could probably have some sort of Singleton manager reference all instances and everyone else simply access those instances from the Singleton manager.

[sour fulcrum]

You can probably just use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint.html directly rather than raycasting which might provide a more consistent/accurate point?

[naive pawn]

imagine you have a document with a field on it
if you want to know what the value of that field is, you have to have a document, otherwise the question just doesn't make sense

[lofty canopy]

unless there is only one instance of it running AKA Singleton pattern. You have to search for it, use a [SerializeField], or so forth.

and you have to make it a singleton in the script.

[lofty canopy]

what do you mean directly instead of raycasting?

[zenith wren]

basically I'm making an object that will be spawned and needs to be picked up by the player and to make sure the player won't pickup multiple objects I have a bool but every time I try to use it like this it doesn't work when creating a new object

[sour fulcrum]

You want the card to follow your cursor right? Right now you are raycasting from the cursor to the world and making the card follow what you hit. Using the function I linked you can just sample the cursor position converted to screen space directly

not 100% sure this is the problem but it might be and will simplify things abit

[ivory bobcat]

You could probably set the field when the player picks it up

[lofty canopy]

I saw something about that but didn't try it yet. I'll give it a whirl.

[zenith wren]

would something like this work?

[lofty canopy]

You can find the player with the Player tag

player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(PLAYER_TAG);

and just set a private static String PLAYER_TAG = "Player"

[zenith wren]

in this case the "player" is just the controller script

[lofty canopy]

does the gameobject have the Player tag set on it?

[rich ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.FindFirstObjectByType.html <

[lofty canopy]

That would work too, and search for PlayerController.

[zenith wren]

yes, or else the cube will teleport to the player anytime it touches anything

[lofty canopy]

Might be better to move the bool check to the player?

and if the player is already interacting with a pickup, the other pickups will check this and ignore it. If that's what you're trying to do?

You could set the objects Awake method to search for the player variable?

or Start, I forget which one.

[lofty canopy]

using UnityEngine;

public class MouseManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsDesktop;
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsPlacement;
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask whatIsInteractable;

    private Card selectedCard = null;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && !GameManager.Instance.gameEnded && Time.timeScale != 0f)
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, whatIsInteractable))
            {
                if (hit.collider != null && selectedCard == null)
                {
                    selectedCard = hit.transform.GetComponent<Card>();
                }
            }
        }

        if (selectedCard != null)
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, whatIsDesktop))
            {
                Vector3 newDestination = hit.point + new Vector3(0f, 2f, 0f);
                newDestination.x = newDestination.x * 0.75f;
                newDestination.z = newDestination.z * 0.75f;
                selectedCard.MoveToPoint(newDestination, Quaternion.identity);
            }
        }
    }
}

This is what I ended up doing and it worked! 😄

Now to not make them magic numbers.

[naive pawn]

you could also do something like this

isInTrigger = other.TryGetComponent(out player);

uhhh that might be a bit obtuse, huh

if (other.TryGetComponent(out player)) {
  isInTrigger = true;
}

this would mean having the PlayerController defines the player rather than the tag

[west sonnet]

What's the best way to move the players weapon into an ADS position from hip firing? Would Lerp be good for that?

[keen dew]

Depends what you mean by best and how you want it to work. If you just want it to move between the two positions then yes lerping between them is probably the best. For more control there's the animation curve or tweening libraries

[west sonnet]

When starting the game, my gun moves to a random position and I'm not sure why. I'm trying to set it to my HipFirePosition empty object position. Can anyone help me figure out why it's happening?

[halcyon moon]

hello people,
i have been trying to learn how to make games from my childhood, in elementary school, i learned abit in scratch and developed a 2 player ping pong game then quit programming due to the software requiring a hard learning path for a 10 year old (or i was stupid).

when i was 15 i tried to learn using godot and made a simple platformer game with 4 levels and 2 difficulties but then quit due to the lack of learning media.

from all these time stops i always stopped creating things because i just can't or didn't find a good media to ** actually** learn a language from.

i wanna learn how to make games on unity and like learn the language (c#) it self to properly create and write what i imagine. so will this brackeys playlist do so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR5QFsefuO2RlAgWEz6EvVi6
if there are any other media that i can learn from i will gladly accept the idea.

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like you've offset it during runtime. Maybe show any code that has changed it's position.

[west sonnet]

The only code I have right now that affects the weapon position is in Start(), and that's just to set the position to HipFire

[ivory bobcat]

If you comment out line 56 does the unwanted behavior persist?

[west sonnet]

No

[ivory bobcat]

So it's whatever value that's being set there that's moving your gun to the unwanted position.

[west sonnet]

But what's weird is that when I press play, the gun doesn't move to the position. You can see where the wanted position is by where the gizmo is, but the gun moves elsewhere

[ivory bobcat]

Depends if you're using localposition values or whatever..

[keen dew]

yeah it should be transform.localPosition = ...

[frail hawk]

a little bit outdated but also has some helpful content

[keen dew]

or even better, add empty gameobjects to the positions where you want the gun to move and move the gun to their position instead of setting the positions by hand

[west sonnet]

With LocalPosition, the gun still doesn't go to the exact position

[west sonnet]

That's what I'm doing. I've got empty gameobjects and using the their positions

[keen dew]

But in the code you have Vector3 variables

[west sonnet]

This is with transform.localposition

[west sonnet]

Yeah, is that okay?

It's because I wanted to use Lerp to move inbetween hip fire and ADS

[keen dew]

It's not using the empty gameobject's position if you set the position to the Vector3 variable value

the Vector3 variable is not the empty gameobject's position

[west sonnet]

Initially, I was just setting the gun position to be one of the 2 empty gameobject position, but it would snap to the position and I want to make it move smoothly. Any ideas on how I could do that?

I thought Lerp would work

[keen dew]

That's a different problem

[ivory bobcat]

The gun was placed where you asked it to be placed (dead center relative to it's parent)

[west sonnet]

I thought I asked it to be placed at the hipfire gameobject position 😭

[keen dew]

Just naming the variable "HipFirePosition" doesn't mean it has anything to do with the object called "HipFirePosition"

[west sonnet]

Omg I've just realized, when I changed the variable from Transform to Vector3, it unassigned the gameobject

[sour fulcrum]

that would make sense, gameobjects are not vector3's

[west sonnet]

Is there any way for me to assign the gameobject to the vector3? In the inspector, the vector3 are now X,Y,Z values

[sour fulcrum]

no

a vector3 is a set of three numbers

thats not a gameobject

[west sonnet]

Is it possible to use the transforms of the objects in Lerp?

To Lerp the gun from one position to another

[keen dew]

Yes, just the same as with any vector3. They aren't anything special

[halcyon moon]

so where else can i learn from?

[frail hawk]

research. there are many tutorials and documents, create small games like flappy bird , temple run etc

[keen dew]

!learn and there are more links in the pinned messages

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[halcyon moon]

thanks guys, so it comes naturally while learning other things?

[keen dew]

What is "it"?

[halcyon moon]

the skill and key to the language

but yeah the pinned masseges have good guides in them

[west sonnet]

So why do I get this error?

[sour fulcrum]

Vector3.Lerp takes in vector3's

[keen dew]

Because those are the object transforms, not their positions

[west sonnet]

Ah right, understood

Thank you

[sour fulcrum]

if i asked you to stick your toe in the pool and you jumped in the pool

[keen dew]

Also that lerp is way wrong even if you fix the parameters

[west sonnet]

How so?

[keen dew]

If you do (example) position = Lerp(x, y, 1) then it's exactly the same as position = y because lerp goes from 0 to 1 where 0 means all the way to x and 1 means all the way to y

It doesn't animate anything by itself

[sour fulcrum]

eg.

Lerp(0, 10, 0.25f) = 2.5f
Lerp(0, 10, 0.5f) = 5
Lerp(0, 10, 10) = 10

[keen dew]

What I suggest instead is make a variable private bool isHipFiring; and then in Update:

if (isHipFiring) {
    transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, HipFirePosition.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
else {
    transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, ADSPosition.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

[west sonnet]

Okay, this is a little confusing to follow. How can Lerp be used to move an object then?

[keen dew]

and on mouse click swap isHipFiring between true and false

[sour fulcrum]

no no it is moving the object, but you have the lerp value at 1 which means its just picking the second value your giving it

[keen dew]

Typically you make a timer from 0 to 1 and use the timer value when lerping

[west sonnet]

So with the lerp value at 1, the object with immediately jump from the first position to the second. Is that right?

[sour fulcrum]

(if thats what your using the lerp for)

[keen dew]

but in this case MoveTowards is easier and you don't need to worry about the intricacies

[sour fulcrum]

not even jump, just the second

lerp is a little function that you say "hey here's two values and i want the value in-between them based on this value"

[west sonnet]

How can that be used for movement tho?

[naive pawn]

t says how exactly it's inbetween
0 -> first value
1 -> second value
0.5 -> halfway between
0.25 -> 75% first value, 25% second value
etc

so if you want to change the output over time, you change t over time

usually by keeping a timer that you add Time.deltaTime to each update

[west sonnet]

Even using MoveTowards, the weapon snaps to the position rather than moving smoothly. What am I doing wrong? transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(HipFirePosition.position, ADSPosition.position, 1f * Time.deltaTime);

[west sonnet]

So does "t" act like a slider in between the 2 points?

As in "t" represents where the variable should be between the 2 points

[sour fulcrum]

Yup!

A lerp is commonly used when actually implementing sliders too 😛

[west sonnet]

But then why is it that you can use fixed values for the "t" and it still works? For example, this line I found in a tutorial weaponPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weaponPosition, adsPosition.localPosition, aimSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

[sour fulcrum]

what do you mean by "fixed value"

[west sonnet]

In the line above, "aimSpeed" will be a fixed value, right? Let's say it's 5. Which means weaponPosition will always be the same value between the 2 positions because aimSpeed never changes

[sour fulcrum]

aimSpeed is a variable. we have no idea if it changes or not

but regardless it being fixed or not doesnt really matter

[naive pawn]

that's wronglerp

[sour fulcrum]

the third value is just the slider between the first two values

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

it's basically using the math of lerp to do something that isn't actually lerp

[west sonnet]

But doesn't that mean weaponPosition never moves from one position to the other?

Because aimSpeed doesn't change

[naive pawn]

so you can't really read the third parameter as t here, because it's just not following what lerp is intended for

[west sonnet]

Assuming it doesn't

[naive pawn]

but weaponPosition does

[west sonnet]

It changes by the value of aimSpeed?

[naive pawn]

no, weaponPosition itself changes

[naive pawn]

@west sonnet go give this a read

[sour fulcrum]

its possible you might be overthinking what Lerp does, it's just a little math equation

three numbers go in one comes out

it does not know nor care about the context behind those values

[west sonnet]

Okay, I kinda get it

I'm struggling to understand how you determine the speed in which Lerp works. I thought the 3rd value (t) acted as a slider. For example Lerp(1, 10, 2) would be 2. but if the 3rd value never changes, how does the value that lerp is being applied to change?

[sour fulcrum]

Lerp(0,10,2) = 10
Lerp(0,20,2) = 20

(the third value is a slider from 0 to 1 so anything higher than 1 is just treated as 1)

[west sonnet]

Ooooohhh

[naive pawn]

lerp doesn't have a speed

lerp just gets a value in-between 2 other values

[west sonnet]

Lerp(0,10,0.7) = 7 ?

[sour fulcrum]

Some code might involve using a Lerp with some kind of speed value, but that's not specific to lerping as its own concept

[west sonnet]

So if you wanted to move the lerp value from the first position to the second, you'd have to somehow increase the third value over time?

[naive pawn]

the speed comes from how quickly you vary the value of t, at least with the "correct" usage of lerp where a and b don't change

[naive pawn]

yep, that's what t stands for, time

[west sonnet]

Right

[naive pawn]

(though not necessarily in seconds - think of it as a percentage)

t=0.5 means 50% complete

[west sonnet]

So then what I'm confused about, is how is this weaponPosition value changed, assuming "aimSpeed" doesn't change overtime weaponPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weaponPosition, adsPosition.localPosition, aimSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

[sour fulcrum]

lets say you have 10 apples in the fridge

I ask you to throw out the second half of the apples

[west sonnet]

oooohhh

[sour fulcrum]

then i ask you to throw out the second half of the apples again

[west sonnet]

Right, gotcha

[sour fulcrum]

weird example tbh im glad you understood it maybe 😭

it's modifying itself

[west sonnet]

Wouldn't that mean that you never reach the second value tho, you just keep getting closer and closer?

[naive pawn]

yeah lerp is deterministic. same inputs, same outputs. it's just math
so something in the input has to change for the output to change

[naive pawn]

yes, that's mentioned in the article i linked you..

[west sonnet]

Why does the weapon move about halfway then doesn't move anymore even with the mousebutton held down?

[wintry quarry]

Because that's literally what your code is telling it to do

Lerp(a, b, 0.5) means the midpoint between a and b

[keen dew]

Lol literally half an hour banging about how it works had no effect at all

[west sonnet]

I figured it out! 😃

Ta Da

😎

Thanks for the help everyone

My first value was wrong. I was just finding the "t" value of the 2 points, so the object would stay stuck in place

[wintry quarry]

Just FYI this is a sort of the classic "incorrect Lerp" and will work decently but it's not perfectly going to reach the destination nor will it be clearly configurable. Google "how to keep correctly in Unity" to read more

[west sonnet]

Yes, Chris sent a link about that earlier

Thank you!

[grand snow]

Only YOU can help stop lerp abuse

[halcyon moon]

what am i doing wrong here?

ah, solved it. just an upper case situation

i hate coding

[timber tide]

it's 2025, hook up your IDE and let it correct it for you

[naive pawn]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[cerulean sandal]

hey i want to make a 2d game but i understood that i need to code alot and i dont know what to learn , isnt it c sharp

or is it c sharp for unity

[slender nymph]

c# is c# whether used in unity or not. there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel and the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good next step to learn how to use the engine

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[cerulean sandal]

so on these channels i can learn c sharp and c sharp for unity

[gentle bone]

you can try searching google for some C# Tutorials.. so you will learn the C# Basics... will still be very helpfull when using Unity .. then try the Unity Learn Website for deeper knowledge in Unity

[tough shard]

Hey can I ask Visual Scripting related questions here?

[grand snow]

#1390346878394040320

oh look

a channel with the name

[tough shard]

Oh yeah I did do that, just had some basic questions

you didn't have to be that rude about it

but I understand

thank you

[grand snow]

people ask all kinds of non programming things here 😆

[lethal owl]

was about to say the same

[slender nymph]

please finish a thought before sending a message instead of spamming one thought across 4 messages

[lofty canopy]

Speech pattern police

[slender nymph]

actually it's a server rule. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[strange jackal]

so I am watching a video that shows creating a large collider around the objects to be picked up, like a stone. so that it triggers events when your in the collider, allowing you to interact and pick it up
however, since I am already using a Ray to look at objects and I added code to calc the distance before displaying the interact message
should I not just use my code based on my distance to objects then act on them? it seems like less code that the video's way

[naive pawn]

they're just different approaches that have their pros and cons

[frosty hound]

If your game is something like a third person perspective where you can pick up items "around you" , then a raycast won't suffice.

If your game is first person and you have to actually look at something, then it's fine.

If your game is first person, and you have to look at something but if you're near something there could also be a prompt, then you could/would use both.

[timber tide]

collider triggers are actually somewhat a pain to work with

if you can do it via physics queries I would

[strange jackal]

ya, it's third person, and I wasted a couple of hours until I realized my ray was hitting the back of my head... so I offset the camera so it sees past

[strange jackal]

that's what I was thinking

[hexed terrace]

use layermasks, so rays only hit what you want them to

[rough granite]

for the first instance you could make a raycast off the player and not camera, though picking "around you" wouldn't work

[timber tide]

You'd use shape overlaps here

[strange jackal]

I had that at first, but it wasn't always the center of my screen the character moves around

[strange jackal]

layermasks? I'll look into that

[strange jackal]

although I have changed it, my character was able to face different directions than my camera view. so the direction my character was facing was not the same as the camera view.

[hot wadi]

What's the difference between getting tag property and using CompareTag()?

[keen dew]

CompareTag is marginally faster and it lets you know if you typo the tag name instead of failing silently

[wintry quarry]

when you call tag it has to allocate a new string which will need to be garbage collected later.

[hot wadi]

Alright cheer mates. Thanks for info

[umbral bough]

Hey, I can't figure out how to access materials of a renderer:
var rend = GetComponents<Renderer>();
I am assuming it requires an assembly reference but I don't know which one.
These are the ones I currently have:

[wintry quarry]

WHy are you assuming an assembly definition is required?

var rend = GetComponents<Renderer>();
This code works fine but just note that GetComponents returns an array of Renderers. Using var here is probably confusing you.

[umbral bough]

oh 🤦‍♂️

I fully missed that, thanks

[hazy dagger]

how can i make it that the turtle actually touches the hitbox of the sneak before dying? currently it seems that it hits the empty pixels of the sprite, i have the same problem with another collission interaction

[glad shore]

you should download CSharpier or Prettier extenstion on vscode is puts less of a hassle and makes code easier to understand

[glad shore]

change the hitbox

you should be able to change values in the component

[hazy dagger]

the box collider? it´s already small, the white outline

[rich adder]

no what they need is to configure their IDE..

[glad shore]

you said a big word that i dont understand 🙏

[glad shore]

warp the collider so it fits with the snake

ohhhhh

js make it thinner

[rich adder]

wdym a big word?

[glad shore]

what does IDE

what IS IDE vro

[naive pawn]

the thing you code in

[rough granite]

IDE is the code editor you write in

[naive pawn]

vscode, vs, rider, etc

[rich adder]

when you dont know something search it

[glad shore]

I didnt know lol

[rich adder]

now you know 💫

[glad shore]

nav should i use a ai for my bosses or should i just write it myself

[rich adder]

its very Important to have a configured IDE if you plan on doing any work in unity, or anywhere else really

[rich adder]

You write it yourself so if something breaks you know how to fix it instead of using regurgitated code that wont work 80% of the time

[glad shore]

thx boss

[hazy dagger]

oh, it was my fault, i forgot that the turtle snaps to the middle when it stops moving, i added an isDead bool

i still have the same problem with the portal, it teleports as soon as the sprites touch instead of when the portal collider gets touched

for now i´m using "yield return new WaitForSeconds((float)0.04);"

[glad shore]

hop in vc

i wanna see

[frail hawk]

hehe

[glad shore]

there is no vc in this serv lol

[rough granite]

there is no vc here and lets not try get people in dms

[hazy dagger]

i can make a vid

[rich adder]

is there a code question here , this is kind of a code channel

[rich adder]

you add suffix f to decimals to make them float btw. no need for this cast

[primal trench]

are abstract classes the best way to make a weapon sys?

[rich adder]

there is never a "best way" in development . every approach has its own pros and cons

[glad shore]

i seee

[primal trench]

what are the pros and cons of abs classes then?

[wintry quarry]

compared with what?

[primal trench]

harcoding weapons

[wintry quarry]

your question is too vague

what does "hardcoding weapons" look like?

This is all way too vaguew

[glad shore]

are you sure its colliding with the correct collider, maybe the portal has a extra component which is making it detect early

[wintry quarry]

come back with some concrete ideas and code samples and then we can compare them

[rich adder]

look into Interfaces as well, they can also provide good modularity without the constraint of inheritance

[wintry quarry]

The phrase "weapon system" itself is extremely vague. That means something completely different depending on the game

[glad shore]

if ur adding by the int u can just detect whenever the turtle meets a certain pos instead of using collision detection

[wintry quarry]

The weapon system in Zelda Breath of the Wild is very different from the weapon system in Armored Core, for example

[hazy dagger]

there is the portal platform and the portal as a child component, the portal can be activated or deactivated based on if a pressureplate is active, the teleportation code is all in the portal

when inactive the portal is disabled, the platforms is there so the player knows where the portals are

[glad shore]

what platforms?

[hazy dagger]

active and inactive

should i just make the platform a separate object?

[glad shore]

just add a portal png when its active

then disable the portal png when innactive

[hazy dagger]

the only thing the platform has is a sprite renderer

[glad shore]

give it a child object called "porta" then SetActive(bool)

[wintry quarry]

why not just set those when it changes, instead of doing it each frame?>

[rich adder]

btw you can just do BoxCollider.enabled = active etc.

[glad shore]

if (active)
portal.SetActive(true);
if (!active)
portal.SetActive(false);

[wintry quarry]

portal.SetActive(active);

[glad shore]

that would be a more simople method

oop

LOL

[hazy dagger]

thanks

[rich adder]

but yeah don't need to do it every frame

[cosmic dagger]

You can change the image of the sprite, activate a child GameObject (with the portal image), or enable a SpriteRenderer on a child GameObject when it's active . . .

[hazy dagger]

the pressure plate code activates is on trigger, how could i?

[rough granite]

share the code

[glad shore]

put the code in the ontrigger

[wintry quarry]

wherever you are doing active = true; or active = false

you do it there

make a function instead of using a simple variable like that

or make a property

[rough granite]

yeah mean doing this portal.SetActive(active); there right

[wintry quarry]

Maybe - if that's what you're replacing those things with. It would be more maintainable to make a function or property that does everything that needs doing, so you only have one place where that would need to change in the future.

[hazy dagger]

how do i share is in the dark box?

[rich adder]

!code 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[hazy dagger]

https://paste.mod.gg/aauphzeonngv/0

[wintry quarry]

llots of unecessary code duplication there

[hazy dagger]

it broke the pressure plate code

[wintry quarry]

private void Awake()
{
    buttonRender = button.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
    brightness = buttonRender.color;
    UpdateSwitchState(switchActive);
}

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
    // Assign switchActive directly based on the collision tag
    switchActive = (collision.CompareTag("Player") || collision.CompareTag("Boulder"));
    UpdateSwitchState(switchActive);
}

private void UpdateSwitchState(bool isActive)
{
    float change = isActive ? 0.3f : -0.3f;

    brightness.r = Mathf.Min(1f, Mathf.Max(0f, brightness.r + change));
    brightness.g = Mathf.Min(1f, Mathf.Max(0f, brightness.g + change));
    brightness.b = Mathf.Min(1f, Mathf.Max(0f, brightness.b + change));

    buttonRender.color = brightness;
    portal1.active = isActive;
    portal2.active = isActive;
}```
nicely deduplicated^

[hazy dagger]

right, i could do it as a void active and inactive, did it recently with the player script and the movement code

[hazy dagger]

oh, i didn´t even know i could do it like that, thanks

[umbral bough]

Hey, how can I get the position of the object at the time of the collision?
I use Debug.Break() when the collision happens and can tell that objects are quite far apart at the time collision is registered, even with physics timestep being set to extremely low values like 0.001.
I tried subtracting collision point position from the current position in order to get the offset I would apply to that object, however, even tho it's calculated correctly, it gives me a position of the object where it would be if the position occured in the center of an object, not it's face/edge.
Is there a way to calculate this cheeply without complex code or do I just have to live with what I have?

// These are just relevant lines
                    var cPos = c.point;
                    var fragPosDelta = fragments[0].transform.position - cPos;
                        var fragPos = fragments[i].GetComponent<Renderer>()
                            .bounds.center - fragPosDelta;

In the pictures below, green sphere is where the collision occurred and third picture represents that the offset I get is correct by applying it to the object transform so its center ends up being at the collision pos.

Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[glad shore]

void OnCollision(Collision Collider)
{
//save possition
}

cant u just do this

[wintry quarry]

You're asking for the contact points, not the position of the object.
Have you checked the Collision object that OnCollisionEnter gives you?

[glad shore]

i forgot the on collision thing tho

[wintry quarry]

You can get contact points from it.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collision-contacts.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collision.GetContact.html

[umbral bough]

this is in collision enter

[umbral bough]

let me look into that

[umbral bough]

that is what I am using, c is the contact point:

private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
{
        foreach (var c in col.contacts)
        {
            var cPos = c.point;

[hazy dagger]

putting the teleportation code on the platform, with a smaller boxcollider still gave the same problem

[umbral bough]

I can send a link to these lines in the repo if that'd help for context

[wintry quarry]

yep that's correct, that will give you the actual contact points, not the center of the object

[umbral bough]

yes, I am aware of that.
however, i need to figure out for how much the object has moved because I want to apply a different force to each chunk(I use a fragmenter) based on how far away it is from the collision point

[wintry quarry]

How far it has moved since when?

What are you trying to accomplish here?

[umbral bough]

since the collision

the screenshot I attached before has Debug.Break() right below the code I sent above and yet the objects are still quite far apart in the scene

[umbral bough]

I fracture an object when I collide with it and I want to apply the strongest force to fragments closest to where the collision occurred.
Issue is that the fragments move by the time collision is detected and the collision point stays where it actually occured.
Therefore, all the chunks are almost the same distance away from the collision point since they all moved equally from it and distance between them is tiny.
So therefore, I need to figure out where those chunks actually were when the collision occured.

[strange jackal]

so I googled how to stop Unity from recompiling every time I save code, but the instructions must be old, I don't see the ability to turn of Auto-Compile in the General Preferences?

[umbral bough]

As you can see in the picture, collision point is all the way to the left, quite far apart from the object at the time of detection.
Therefore, all the object chunks receive almost an equal force since they are equally far apart from the collision point.

[umbral bough]

I am in Unity 6.3 and it's still there

[wintry quarry]

well the issue is that Unity's physics uses a discrete timestep. So the object is never actually in the position you are thinking of (exactly when the collision occurs). There is only basically a snapshot before and a snapshot after. I'm not sure the information you're looking for is really made available by the engine.

Maybe the closest you can get is to use:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.ContactEvent.html
And look at:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ContactPair.GetContactPointFaceIndex.html

[strange jackal]

thanks, google said it was in the General tab with a check box

[umbral bough]

we could be referring to a different thing tho

what I sent is a refresh in general, you'll have to press ctrl+r when you change the script if I am not mistaken if you enable what I sent

[rich adder]

thats pretty much the only thing you can disable for scripts

the playbutton domain reload but thats only for playmode

[umbral bough]

there's also this

[strange jackal]

now that I looked again it says (check the asset pipline on newer versions...)

[umbral bough]

Thanks for all the resources, I'll look into it!

[hazy dagger]

isActive is giving me an error

[umbral bough]

read the error

[hazy dagger]

i tried to figure it out

[umbral bough]

oh

[wintry quarry]

looks like you made isActive a float instead of a bool

[hazy dagger]

i made it a public float

[umbral bough]

yeah that's why

[wintry quarry]

why would it be a float?

[hazy dagger]

the code you showed had it as a float

[umbral bough]

do you understand how ternary works?

[wintry quarry]

the cdoe I showed doesn't declare the variable at all

[rough granite]

no? it's checking if the bool isActive is true or not

[hazy dagger]

making it a bool gives more errors

[wintry quarry]

what??

WHy are you changing that code

[hazy dagger]

no, sorry

[wintry quarry]

that code is not relevant

you need to look at where you declare isActive

you did public float isActive;

why did you change that?
Nobody said to change that

[rough granite]

well no shit you are changing the wrong thing

[hazy dagger]

you said that i made it a float instead of a bool

[rough granite]

keep change as a float, change isActive back to being a bool

[wintry quarry]

yes, and you did

but you are looking at the wrong code

you changed your other code for no reason

[rough granite]

no they said to change isActive to a bool not change "change"

[hazy dagger]

oh, ok, sorry

[umbral bough]

ok, it's basically a shortcut for if/else.
so you would do:

// a float variable
float change =

// this is the same as saying if(isActive)
isActive ?

// if isActive is true return this
0.3f

// if isActive is false return this
: -0.3f

// if isActive assign 0.3f otherwise -0.3f
float change = isActive ? 0.3f : -0.3f

[hazy dagger]

ok, it should be good now

[umbral bough]

but isActive has to be a bool for that to work

[hazy dagger]

the portals don´t activate now, and the switch just gets darker and darker

[rough granite]

what's calling UpdateSwitchState()?

[hazy dagger]

onTriggerEnter2D

[wintry quarry]

there should probably be an if (isActive == switchActive) return; at the start of UpdateSwitchState tbh

[wintry quarry]

nothing else?

[rough granite]

share the code saying this doesnt help me get any idea

[wintry quarry]

yeah this is wrong actually:

    // Assign switchActive directly based on the collision tag
    switchActive = (collision.CompareTag("Player") || collision.CompareTag("Boulder"));
    UpdateSwitchState(switchActive);```

[hazy dagger]

i´m just using this code
https://paste.mod.gg/lhwlgwguljyh/1

[rough granite]

this is outdated unless you went back

[wintry quarry]

if should be like:

    // Assign switchActive directly based on the collision tag
    if (collision.CompareTag("Player") || collision.CompareTag("Boulder")) {
       switchActive = !isActive;
    }
    UpdateSwitchState(switchActive);```

[hazy dagger]

still nothing

[hazy dagger]

added a 2nd page

[rough granite]

you mean

if (collision.CompareTag("Player") || collision.CompareTag("Boulder")) {
 switchActive = !switchActive;
}
UpdateSwitchState(switchActive);

also no wonder

this

    private void UpdateSwitchState(bool switchActive)
    {
        float change = isActive ? 0.3f : -0.3f;

        brightness.r = Mathf.Min(1f, brightness.r + change);
        brightness.g = Mathf.Min(1f, brightness.g + change);
        brightness.b = Mathf.Min(1f, brightness.b + change);

        buttonRender.color = brightness;
        portal1.active = isActive;
        portal2.active = isActive;
    }

is wrong

the isActive for each bool here should be switchActive not the IsActive

[wintry quarry]

yeah the fact it's two different variables is basically wrong

it needs to be:

if (switchActive == isActive) return;
isActive = switchActive;
// the rest

[hazy dagger]

oh, i see what i did

😓

[wintry quarry]

switchActive would be better named newActiveState or something

[hazy dagger]

it works now

[rough granite]

you have 2 bools trying to do the same thing but never equal each other delete the isActive and do what i put here

[hazy dagger]

well, i learned some new things, thanks

after following tutorials for almost a year, of which they all ended up not working and the guys just changed code without saying anything, i just decided to make a game from scratch by myself, it´s been way more fun and i have actually been able to learn stuff

[hazy dagger]

how can i make it detect it like this?

[compact sundial]

im going a bit crazy with this, I did some stuff and somehow it keeps saying type mismatch when I try to get extended character controller in the inspector

using UnityEngine;

public class MagicBoltScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float Speed = 1;
    [SerializeField] public GameObject ExplosionOnePrefabVariant;
    private ExtendedCharacterController extendedPlayerController;
    private float magicBoltDamageAmount = 1;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {

        extendedPlayerController.GetComponent<ExtendedCharacterController>();

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    public void FixedUpdate()
    {
        transform.position -= transform.up * Speed * Time.deltaTime;
        //Debug.Log(transform.forward);
    }

    public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        //Debug.Log(other + "Magic collides");
        if (other.TryGetComponent<Damageable>(out Damageable component))
        {

            magicBoltDamageAmount = extendedPlayerController.magicMissileDamageMultiplier + 1;
            Debug.Log("Dealing Magic Damage");
            component.Damage(magicBoltDamageAmount);
            Instantiate(ExplosionOnePrefabVariant, transform.position, transform.rotation);
            Destroy(this.gameObject);


        }
    }
}

extended character controller is a script that handles most of my character handling

[wintry quarry]

Where is the object that has the MagicBoltScript that you're trying to drag into, and where is the object that has the ExtendedCharacterController?
Is one of them in the scene and one is a prefab in the project window? Which is which?

[wintry quarry]

Also right now your private ExtendedCharacterController extendedPlayerController; field is NOT serialized so it shouldn't be showing in the inspector regardless.

another point - your extendedPlayerController.GetComponent<ExtendedCharacterController>(); line of code in Start() is completely pointless and does nothing

[compact sundial]

the object that has the magic bolt script is a prefab variant object

and the object that has the extended character controller is the player object

the player is in the scene and the prefab variant object is a projectile prefab

so that when the animation for the magic is used, the projectile prefab comes flying out of the player's hand

and the private field that I had was serialized but I unserialized it for the moment

it only shows the objects that have the extended character controller component

when I do the circle

[wintry quarry]

yeah that's your problem

Prefabs cannot reference objects in a scene

The easiest approach here would be to pass the player reference to the magic bolt script (and any other spell script) after you instantiate the spell

[compact sundial]

oh lol I fixed it, I passed it the player prefab instead of the player in the scene

[wintry quarry]

but that won't work at runtime then

[compact sundial]

it did tho

[wintry quarry]

it will "work" as in it will run without errors

it won't do the correct thing is what I mean

the position of the bolt will be incorrect, assuming the player can move.

[compact sundial]

no its working

I can record a little mp4 video rq

[wintry quarry]

Doesn't make sense unless your code is doing something else that you haven't explained

            magicBoltDamageAmount = extendedPlayerController.magicMissileDamageMultiplier + 1;
            Debug.Log("Dealing Magic Damage");
            component.Damage(magicBoltDamageAmount);
            Instantiate(ExplosionOnePrefabVariant, transform.position, transform.rotation);```

your code is not actually using extendedPlayerController's position at all
that's why

[compact sundial]

 public void FixedUpdate()
    {
        transform.position -= transform.up * Speed * Time.deltaTime;
        //Debug.Log(transform.forward);
    }

[wintry quarry]

Your original premise that you needed the reference to get the position was inaccurate

you're just using it to get the magicMissileDamageMultiplier

[compact sundial]

oh right, in another script I have it following the hand transform

[wintry quarry]

So in fact, if the magicMissileDamageMultiplier changes on the player at runtime

that part will not work here

you will only get the value from the prefab

[compact sundial]

its still working, its doing 7 damage like its supposed to

[SerializeField] public float magicMissileDamageMultiplier = 6f;
    private AttackType currentAttack = AttackType.Basic;
    public float DamageProperty
    {
        get
        {
            switch (currentAttack)
            {
                case AttackType.Basic:
                    return baseAttackDamageVar * (1 + basicAttackMultiplier);

                case AttackType.JumpSlash:
                    return baseAttackDamageVar * (1 + jumpSlashDamageMultiplier);

                case AttackType.ThrustSlash:
                    return baseAttackDamageVar * (1 + thrustSlashDamageMultiplier);
                case AttackType.MagicShot:
                    return baseAttackDamageVar * (1 + magicMissileDamageMultiplier);

[wintry quarry]

Again it will only not work if that value changes on the player during the game

[compact sundial]

oh

this code is in the extended character controller

[wintry quarry]

if magicMissileDamageMultiplier never changes, then it's fine, if a little weird

[compact sundial]

well it works for now so yay

[bitter herald]

Does anyone know how to get this to stop showing in my console? It keeps burying my actual errors and it's super annoying! -Shows after every compile, script change etc.

[lofty canopy]

I'll try to obey the rule but it's a habit that I type like that sometimes. I'll have to be actively aware of my typing behaviour. What a drag.

[rough granite]

this looks like something for jobs you didn't mess with stuff in preferences did you?

[bitter herald]

Not as far as I can remember, I've been dealing with it for months now, just got annoyed enough today to come to the discord lol. I believe it happened after upgrading at one point.

[rough granite]

upgrading versions or licensing?

[bitter herald]

Versions

[slender nymph]

Yeah, not spamming a channel is a requirement. What nonsense /s

[bitter herald]

Know of a way to restore all default preferences?

[rough granite]

i dont sorry

[rough granite]

wait you wouldn't happen to have Show Timing enabled would you?

at least im pretty sure that's what it is based off this response to someones post https://discussions.unity.com/t/profiling-burst-compilation-times/937302/6

[humble ridge]

Hi guys! I have a question about some basic code, how can i paste the code like this message? To have this format so you can read it better

[compact sundial]

just type 3 of these ` at the beginning and 3 at the end

[pliant lion]

how can i check if someone is from mobile phone or desktop in webgl game

[primal trench]

does anybody know how I'd do this in the new input system..?

[humble ridge]

Thanks! MI'm still a beginner but I'm trying to understand the physics system. I've been searching for alternatives for coding my characters 2d movement. I think that the best solution is using rigidbody addforce, so all the colliders works and so on (let me know if I'm wrong). So I applied the following code. But now it applies more force every time the key is pressed. It also slies when ending.

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/manual/Migration.html

[primal trench]

thanks i'll take a look

[humble ridge]

    {
        moveInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0).normalized; //Normalize to make diagonals same velocity as X or Y
    }
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
            rb.AddForce(moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * moveInput); //Use deltaTime so move speed does not change if we change fixed update rate
    }```

I saw that changing linear clamping helps, but obviously it also changes the velocity when falling...

[primal trench]

oh that's for like per-script movememnt I use this

a player input component

and a input manager script

[rough granite]

shouldn't use delta time for AddForce as far as i know

[keen dew]

The usual solution is to tweak either the friction of the ground and/or drag of the player rigidbody

[rough granite]

also you using ai for this?

[rich ice]

make sure to put cs (```cs) at the start of your code blocks. makes it a little easier for us to read.

[primal trench]

i have no clue how to translate key down and get key to this

[prime shore]

Anyone know the best way to add pixel art to Unity? I cant figure out how to match one sprite to another the pixels are always off

[humble ridge]

Well, I wrote this code based by a answer I got here saying that if fixed update values change, it will change my physics too I think, so that's why I applied this code, but I'm sure I didn't get it right, so that's probably why it's wrong

[rich ice]

not a code question, although you should just be able to import it and then set the pixels per-unit to whatever it's supposed to be

[humble ridge]

Can you tell me an example or where can I found some resources to look at it please?

[prime shore]

oh my bad i thought this was unity beginner

[humble ridge]

Should I? Probably not, right?

[rough granite]

no just thought you were cause the comments seemed like the ones ai would write

[keen dew]

I'm not sure what kind of example you're looking for. Change the values and see what happens

[humble ridge]

I feel that I'm not understanding well the physics and I don't know where to look

[rough granite]

but as this answer says Time.DeltaTime shouldn't be used https://discussions.unity.com/t/does-addforce-use-time-deltatime-or-time-fixeddeltatime-or-it-depends-on-whether-it-is-being-used-in-update-or-fixedupdate/237627/2

[primal trench]

i could just change how i handle input for this one instance but that seems weird...

[humble ridge]

Oooh, I'm just trying to comment everything so I don't forget what I do, at least for the start

[humble ridge]

Tysm!!! I'll note it down for next time

[rough granite]

fair im sure it's better than some of the messes i've written before like this one.

which isn't even half the function call yet it's only random if statements

[rich adder]

check the documentation it has everything explained like Buttons and what not

[humble ridge]

Well, it happened to me tbh hahahaa

[primal trench]

does the player input component give off a held value or smth?

[humble ridge]

Now I've been programming for over 8 years, but when I started I remeber programming even worst things (but I'm new to Unity :p)

[rich adder]

you configure it to either give you from the button a press or press and release

[short hazel]

Note that this can be simplified, when you have conditions of the like:

if (x == 42)
  val = true;
else
  val = false;

You can shorten the whole thing to val = (x == 42);

[primal trench]

yeah i understand that part im just struggling with....executing that in code

like how do i transfer

[rough granite]

really?

[primal trench]

the getkey and getkeydown stuff to this way of input

[rich adder]

wdym how to transfer it ? use a bool

[primal trench]

like how do i tell if the button is being held or just pressed like how grt key and get key down did

[rich adder]

set it as button mode and you get 1 frame event was it was performed

if you want held you would use started and canceled / performed depending on mode

polling is an option too but Idk how to do that besides Keyboard.current.

[primal trench]

could you write an example? I apolagize if I seem dense but I'm just not comprehending 😭

[rich adder]

not at the pc right now but you can for now replace it with this until you learn more about it Keyboard.current.rKey.wasPressedThisFrame and its a direct to GetKeyDown R.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.5/manual/Migration.html#unityengineinputgetkeydownhttpsdocsunity3dcomscriptreferenceinputgetkeydownhtml

[primal trench]

this is the input format i use

[rich adder]

so do the same thing ?

[primal trench]

so like Value.wasPressedthisframe?

[rich adder]

you don't really need that if you do the SendMessages with action map as you did with OnSlide

Just call whatever method you need for the R key OnReload and OnShoot

eg

OnFire(InputValue value) {
weaponScript.Shoot(); }
...
void Shoot(){
if(ammo == 0) return;
//Shoot stuff```

[primal trench]

the tutorial I'm watching sets a shooting variable instead of callinfg a function

[rich adder]

as I said before you can also use a bool field to store the state of the action

[primal trench]

alright hopefully this works

thanks

[rich adder]

there are tons of ways to use this input system btw

as you might tell lol

[primal trench]

ik i usually work in godot so this seems so much more complicated 😭

[rich adder]

it seems so because this is a swiss army knife, the old input system was more like a butter knife

[primal trench]

in godot you just do this and call if input.isactionjustpressed("input")

[rich adder]

you can do the same exact thing 🤷‍♂️

you're just not used the interface / workflow ig

It also offers the options to use hardcoded strings but thats ugly

[primal trench]

yeah i've played with unity for awhile i always just hated the input system and never learned it properly out of pure spite

[rich adder]

well you're doing yourself a disservice, especially when dealing with how easy it is to do rebinds and auto device detections so you can switch menu UIs on the fly.. cool stuff

[acoustic belfry]

Hi, i need help

for a weird reason the debug log for i guess is not zero and the should work is not called, why that happens

    {
        Debug.Log("meele's call'd");
        Vector3 meleeRange = new Vector3(attackRangeX, attackRangeY, attackRangeZ);
        int hitsCount = Physics.OverlapBoxNonAlloc(meleePos.position, meleeRange, hitDemons, Quaternion.identity, demons);

        for (int i = 0; i < hitsCount; i++)
        {
            Debug.Log("int is not zero, i guess");
            if (hitDemons [i].TryGetComponent<EnemyBase>(out var enemy))
            {
                Debug.Log("THIS SHOULD WORK");
                enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage,0,2,2,transform);
                // Don't set HasHitValeria = true here if you want to hit all targets
            }
        }
    }```

just melee call'd

im trying to check what went wrong, but i dont find it

constant melee checking and 3D ends up to be very complex i supose

[rich adder]

so your physics query i s not catching anything

[rich adder]

you can do dozens of these especially with nonalloc and be fine

nothing to do with that

[acoustic belfry]

i resize it and ends up for the int is not zero now works

[rich adder]

if it was a problem a lot of games wouldn't exist lol we'd be playing pong

[acoustic belfry]

but the last one doesnt

[primal trench]

        {
            PlayerGunSystem.Shooting = true;
        } ```
is this what you mean?

[rich adder]

so its not finding the component you mean from tryget ?
instead of logging stuff like "work" and "not work" debug the values, like debug what you hit in that loop and see if its what you expect to be

[acoustic belfry]

ok

[rich adder]

if you want to use a bool instead of directly just calling the method.. not like this . you need it to set to false somehow or you're "stuck" in that action

[acoustic belfry]

but the weird part is, it should

all of em inherit from it

[rich adder]

idk what you mean "all of em inherit from it " but "should" is always based on assumptions.. never facts, use facts my checking over the values

[acoustic belfry]

ok

all of the scripts are inherited from EnemyBase

[rich adder]

see which colliders are catching and what components those have

[acoustic belfry]

in the 2D old project this worked

and the script was similar

atleast that part was the same

check if it has the component enemyBase

and it had it

[primal trench]

what i want to do is if your allowed to hold then it sets shooting to true every frame that the shoot button is pressed but if your not it sets it to true then false the next frame

[rich adder]

but is component on the same object as the collider?

[acoustic belfry]

yes i suposse

is the script

[rich adder]

Debug.Log hitDemons [i].name

[acoustic belfry]

holup

[rich adder]

make sure ig

[acoustic belfry]

i hate 3d, now im starting to think

it may be not

[rich adder]

whats 3D got to do with it lol the code is exactly the same

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, its an empty body, inside of it is a capsule

the object has a rigidbody

but the capsule has a collider

no, cuz on 2D the colliders are in the same object as the parent

but in here is the OBJ

[rich adder]

TryGetComponent only looks for the components on the collider object not Parents

rigidbody shouldn't affect that

[acoustic belfry]

i changed opinion

the spherecast works

so it should work

my internet is trash

Y E A H

[primal trench]

but im completely stuck

[acoustic belfry]

it was freaking that

the parenting

well, thanks a lot

this helped a lot

[rich adder]

are you talking about
Hold to shoot and let go not shoot ?

[primal trench]

mhm

[rich adder]

You can use the isPressed from InputValue then

just set button to detect both Started and Released Set action type to Value

should automatically set the bool to false when let go cause OnFire

[primal trench]

the allowbuttonhold is basically auto or not auto

[rich adder]

the what now ?

[primal trench]

the variable that decides if like, if you can hold and continuously shoot or you have to press the shoot button over and over for each shot

[earnest wagon]

so. oddly specific question. Suppose I want to make an editor only component, which has different behavior if one of two packages is present in the project, and a third behavior if both are present, and another if neither is present. I know there is, in some languages, the concept of lazy loading, but I'm not really savvy with c# aside from general familiarity with it via c/c++ relation and java similarity. is this possible without going kersplode?

The two packages are Magica Cloth 2 and Dynamic Bones.

[lofty canopy]

I didn't say anything about spamming.

I don't mean 8 lines in a row but 2-3 is acceptable, yeah?

I'm just saying I might get excited about a topic and I'll forget the etiquette in the moment cause I'm a ADHD space cadet sometimes. lol

[eternal needle]

what are you actually trying to do?
you could probably use the package manager api to find out if the packages exist

[rich adder]

this you can probably do with Interactions enum

[primal trench]

what's that?

[rough granite]

presumably a enum named Interactions

[lofty canopy]

Let's not make it sound like a special enum then.

[rough granite]

your right lets call the enum Pizza

[lofty canopy]

public enum InteractionType
    {
        None,
        SingleShot,
        BurstFire,
        SemiAutomatic,
        Automatic
    }

//You can also bitshift the numbers so you can do binary comparisons.
public enum InteractionType
    {
        None = 1,
        SingleShot = 1 << 1,
        BurstFire = 1 << 2,
        SemiAutomatic = 1 << 3,
        Automatic = 1 << 4
    }

There's an example for you.

[earnest wagon]

hmmm. Tbh I could do that. tbh its a bit annoying and very domain specific to describe. basically, generation of 'proxy colliders' at build time for the component you lack, and the intent is to feed it a list of either DB or MC2 colliders

[neon forum]

can I not add gameObjs in the scene to prefabs?

[wintry quarry]

assets (such as prefabs) cannot reference objects in scenes, if that's what you mean by "adding"

[neon forum]

that is, and darn

I'll figure something else out then

Is there a way for a function in a script in a prefab to "talk" to a gameobj in a scene?

[lofty canopy]

For the most part a prefab is a predefined collection of gameObjects and components. anything from the parent of the prefab to the children can reference each other but anything outside of the prefab can't be saved indefintely.

[wintry quarry]

nah, it's just scene objects that can't be referenced. Assets can reference other assets just fine.

[neon forum]

I'm trying to have an onclickevent to basically tell the deck editor to add 1 copy of a card to the decklist

[rich adder]

actually its a class
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.Interactions.html
but yeah you probably want to research more on this, last time I think I did something like context.interaction is TapInteraction or context.interaction is SlowTapInteraction
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/manual/Interactions.html

[lofty canopy]

You'd have to have the prefab in the hierarchy and you can temporarily set a reference with a SerializeField.

[wintry quarry]

Most likely the singleton pattern is your simplest answer here

[lofty canopy]

Would using an Event and subscribing work here?

[neon forum]

like creating an instance of the script to be globally referenced?

[wintry quarry]

The "deck editor" presumably there's only one of those right? You can make it a singleton

then you have a static accessor property to get the reference

[neon forum]

ahhh that could work, but I won't need it except for the deckeditor scene, so it'll still be destroyed when I leave the scene, will that be okay?

[wintry quarry]

As long as you only try to access it when it exists

[neon forum]

ah, then good

[wintry quarry]

you could also have the card fire an event and have something in the scene subscribe to it when you spawn the card

[neon forum]

I mean I'm going to have a lot of cards in the 'selectable card section', would events allow me to fire them off with their name/instance?

[lofty canopy]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SingletonExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static LevelGrid Instance { get; private set; }

    private GridSystem gridSystem;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Instance != null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("There's more than one SingletonExample! " + transform + " - " + Instance);
            Destroy(gameObject);
            return;
        }

        Instance = this;
    }
}

There's an example of a singleton for you. There's various ways of doing it though.

[earnest wagon]

like its honestly very easy to detect MC2; it defines a symbol in the project, MAGICACLOTH2

[eternal needle]

you can pass a reference to itself while invoking the event

[wintry quarry]

you can do whatever you want in your code

[neon forum]

I can't do whatever I want because c# will tell me "no you can't do that"

I can try for sure

[wintry quarry]

well when you understand C# you can do whatever you want

[lofty canopy]

Oh, btw with that singleton example you can type SingletonExample.Instance.MethodExample() or SingletonExample.Instance.variable if you make them public.

[eternal needle]

could you also just use something like this?
https://discussions.unity.com/t/detect-if-a-package-is-installed/838614/2
you shouldnt need a symbol specifically for this

[earnest wagon]

sure NEED is one thing but it does make it easy

ah, and tbh, misspoke. while they're available on the unity asset store and can be installed via the package manager they're not 'packages' so to speak

[eternal needle]

oh I guess it does change if you're trying to reference the specific components

[lofty canopy]

But, generally the singleton pattern tends to be avoided except in certain situations. creating an Event and subscribing to it is the cleaner method.

[neon forum]

I'll try to learn events then

so doing a += and a function is like assigning an event to when something happens in the game?

[eternal needle]

🤔 singleton and events solve entirely different problems. An event would live on an instance (unless for some reason you make it static)

[wintry quarry]

Singletons are very common

[neon forum]

events would be better then since these will be instances made from prefabs

[lofty canopy]

You're adding that method to the event to be called when the event is fired off.

[eternal needle]

what instance of the event would you be subscribing to -> now you're back to the real problem here that you need to reference an instance

[neon forum]

so the event would be OnClick() for this button

I just need the instance's name

[wintry quarry]

You can solve it in either way. Singleton will be less code and simpler. Managing events will involve managing instances and subscriptions for all the objects you instantiate

Take your pick

You could use a static event as well

that would be an in-between solution

[neon forum]

event seems like the optimal solution

[eternal needle]

Unless im missing some context, I didn't see you describe much about what the setup or problem is. Are cards just supposed to call a function on the DeckEditor while in the DeckEditor scene? Are you re-using the same cards in other scenes where you might not have a DeckEdtior?

[lofty canopy]

Oh, and usually it's a good idea to subscribe OnEnable and unsubscribe (-=) OnDisable.

[neon forum]

I have a prefab that basically is told by the deckEditor to copy itself into every instance of Card(Scriptable Object) in Resources/Cards

I was able to do that successfully

[grand snow]

un sub in OnDestroy() if done in a monobehaviour

because it wont magically un sub itself!

[neon forum]

now I need to tell each card to "tell deckeditor to add a copy of yourself to the currect deck"

[wintry quarry]

to be clear to use events you will need to do this:

• When you instantiate the prefab, you will need to subscribe to the event on it, which will need to pass itself as an argument.
• When you press the button, the card needs to fire that event, which will fire the subscriber
• When the card is destroyed you will need to unsubscribe from its event

To use singleton it will go this way:

• When the button is pressed, it gets the singleton reference and calls a function directly

[neon forum]

Where would I create this new event? In deckeditor?

[wintry quarry]

no... on the card UI prefab

In either case the thing you set in the inspector (button listener) will need to be a function on a script on the card ui itself

[neon forum]

So a new event e(this) and then CardUI.button += event e?

[wintry quarry]

basically:

CardUI newCardUi = Instantiate(cardUiPrefab);
newCardUi.myEvent += MyEventListener;```

And when it gets destroyed you need to `-= MeEventListener` on that same instance

[neon forum]

so OnDestroy I need to unsub

[grand snow]

This way round its not essential to unsub as we can presume CardUI wont invoke its event any more after being destroyed...

[lofty canopy]

You should make the cards scriptableobjects if you haven’t.

[neon forum]

do not worry I have

[wintry quarry]

true actually, if the button's lifecycle is less than the deck manager, you don't need to unsub

[eternal needle]

this doesnt make a lot of sense, what is a deck? why are you adding a copy?
I assume you meant you want to pass a reference of DeckEditor to the Deck

[lofty canopy]

Is there a way you can share the project so we can look at it? Edit: Don’t do this.

[neon forum]

the whole project?

I mean I need to boot up my gitbash but give me a bit

[eternal needle]

you do not need to share the project, and shouldnt either. I am asking specific questions about the design

[neon forum]

ah

[lofty canopy]

Fair enough. Noted for next time.

[eternal needle]

i ask because it seems like this is your real problem at the end: You have cards that should do logic only if its in the DeckEditor scene.
The question is what this logic is. Should it just call a function on DeckEditor? Is DeckEditor calling a function on the cards? What does it actually mean for "deckeditor to add a copy of yourself to the currect deck"

[neon forum]

Essentially, in the DeckEditor scene, the player should be able to:

1. view a list of "available cards", which is created from the DeckEditor creating a card(from the card/button prefab) for each instance of card in resources/cards
2. Upon clicking, the card should tell the deck editor to add a "copy" of that card to the decklist(in code it just tells the deckeditor to add the card, not the prefab, to the list of cards). The "Current deck" should then display the same prefab, with the option for the player to click on it to remove it from the current decklist.
3. upon finishing, it should have a decklist that the GameManager can read and create a deck from

the card prefabs and deckEditor script are done and are deleted upon leaving the scene

Maybe I should do something with pictures because I'm terrible at explaining with words...

would you rather have me draw it?

[grand snow]

A single card instance having an event to report when it was clicked makes sense to me

makes sense also that deck editor creates the instances and also handles responding to said events

[spring otter]

Say I have a directional Vector(0, -1)
Is there an operation I can make to rotate it by angles or something like that? So that I can, for example, rotate it by 45, 30 degrees and odd amounts?

[grand snow]

You can use quaternions to rotate a vector

[spring otter]

I was messing with that but with no success

Quaternion.AngleAxis

[lofty canopy]

Quaternion.eulerAngles is easiest to work with.

[grand snow]

Something like Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 45) * dir should work

[eternal needle]

what you described makes sense assuming you have this decklist already defined and accessible somewhere.
Events could make sense here and it'd be easy enough. I'd consider using an ID instead of name incase you ever consider changing card names in the future.
My only concern here is if you're re-using these cards UI's for other scenes that need to handle the OnClick logic differently. It might get pretty messy

[grand snow]

Their description of the current deck editor design is fine

using singletons here would be dumb and im glad they arent

[neon forum]

I was thinking of reusing them for the actual main game, and just have the gameManager take care of OnSceneLoad and do a check to see if we're in main game or deck editor

and thus give it different logic based on the scene

[grand snow]

If this was me, a "Card" would just do one job: show the sprite for a card and store what card it is and have an event for being clicked

[neon forum]

Well that's the scriptableasset

that's its only job

[grand snow]

Then you can re use this anywhere you want and not worry soo much

Well yea we can have the "card data" and "card view" if you prefer

[neon forum]

that's basically my plan

[grand snow]

Then its all good 👍

[neon forum]

It basically says "i've been clicked" and the deckeditor/gamemanager handles the rest

[grand snow]

public event Action<Card> OnClick; 🙂

[neon forum]

I just need to figure out the event system so I don't screw everything up

[eternal needle]

from the current idea it sounds like a card would be invoking an event specifically passing it's name, but yea if it passes just the card instance then it is fine

[grand snow]

some unique id or the data object works, programmers choice

[neon forum]

so now my DeckEditor can listen for these events?

[grand snow]

Yea, as it creates instances it can subscribe so it can respond to a card view being clicked

spawn card view, init card view with card data, sub to event

or however these prefabs work

[neon forum]

so I tell the DeckEditor to subscribe to the event of the instance

[grand snow]

yea

CardView card = Instantiate(cardViewPrefab);
card.Init(cardData);
card.OnClick += OnCardClicked;

[eternal needle]

its just as praetor wrote here #💻┃code-beginner message

[spring otter]

Quaternion thing = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90f);
direction *= new Vector2(thing.x, thing.y);

Direction is being set to zero
I have zero experience with Quaternions

[grand snow]

wtf are you doing 😆
you are reading x and y of a Quaternion this wont do anything useful

[spring otter]

How am I going to use that rotation then?

I don't understand

[eternal needle]

thats not similar to what they wrote even 🤔 you dont read the individual components of a quaternion. you use the multiplication operator
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html
look at 2nd declaration

[spring otter]

I never worked with Quaternions before

[grand snow]

Vector2 rotatedVector = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 45) * new Vector2(0f, 1f)

this operator use is documented here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html

[spring otter]

Ah, I was using the *= operator and Unity was complaining

Thats why I was reading the components

[eternal needle]

you should google how to use events in c#, like how to subscribe and unsubscribe
you dont invoke the method when adding it. dosomething also need to be a method

[spring otter]

It worked guys, thanks for the help

[grand snow]

I gave such a clear example 😭

[neon forum]

I figured it out

I didn't need to add the parenthesis because that caused problems

[grand snow]

yea you arent calling the function, just using it in the event sub

its like when we do nameof(MyCoolFunction)

[neon forum]

ahh

[rough granite]

what is this used for?

[neon forum]

how do I mass unsubscribe from the instances? Do I do a foreach or is there a quicker option?

[grand snow]

string name = nameof(MonoBehaviour);
produces a string of the symbols name

[polar acorn]

Used for things like Invoke or StartCoroutine that take a string name of a function as a parameter, but it gives you compile-time checking and makes it so if you rename the function you don't need to remember to go back and change this as well

[rough granite]

symbols name?

[grand snow]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/nameof

[rough granite]

ahh makes sense, never really used it since i don't like either Invoke or Coroutines

[polar acorn]

"Symbol" being the generic term for fields, properties, methods, classes, etc.

Things that show up in blue in VS

[rough granite]

unless Log for Debug.Log is meant to be one of these Symbols i think i have the wrong blue

[eternal needle]

If you store a list of all the cards then you could unsubscribe by going through the list. If the deck editor is only destroyed when the whole scene is then you dont really need to unsubscribe here

[neon forum]

ah, then good, because yeah it is destroyed on scene change

[polar acorn]

Log is a method. That method name is a symbol.

[rough granite]

Fair i guess i knew that was more so getting at how nothing else was blue :/

[grand snow]

as a warning for the future, you can only unsub from an event using the same function on the same instance
so if you subscribe with a lambda you need a reference to the same one to unsub it later.

[neon forum]

yeah I was thinking that I'd have to have a list or something that would point to all the instances

but that sounds like an even bigger mess

[bitter herald]

Holy cow, yes it was enabled- thanks! lol

[grand snow]

Its more of an issue if you did:
card.OnClicked += (card) => {//stuff}

(using a lambda expression)

You are currently fine as you can use the same function to unsub inside of card editor.

[neon forum]

do I need to assign the OnClick event to the button component?

I don't think the OnClick is firing

[grand snow]

if you have a button then you need to invoke your event somehow

button.onClick.AddListener(() => OnClick?.Invoke(cardData));

presuming button is a UGUI button

[neon forum]

it is, thanks

[grand snow]

event?.Invoke() this lets us invoke the event and avoid a null ref exception if it has 0 subscribers
otherwise you can do event()

[neon forum]

Alright, so I added that as well. My button isn't working though, so I gotta see if something's blocking its on click

yeah it has the button component but it's not firing onclick? How do I see if there's something blocking it?

[lofty canopy]

What’s the difference between Euler and eulerAngle?

[slender nymph]

select your scene's EventSystem and you can look at its preview window to see what is being detected by it. that will tell you if something is blocking a UI object

[neon forum]

how do I select the eventsystem?

[wintry quarry]

Euler was a swiss mathematician.
eulerAngle - you'll have to be more specific

[slender nymph]

Quaternion.Euler is a static method that creates a Quaternion from Euler angles. Quaternion.eulerAngles is an instance property that provides a Vector3 containing the euler angles derived from that quaternion

[lofty canopy]

I always found eulerAngles worked for me. Quaternion is difficult for me to understand.

[slender nymph]

with your mouse

[neon forum]

yeah but like where? It's not in the heirarchy

[wintry quarry]

then you don't have one

[slender nymph]

well then that is precisely why your button isn't working

[lofty canopy]

EventSystem is created when you create a canvas, yeah?

[neon forum]

yup it work snow

it didn't

had to manually add one

[slender nymph]

you probably deleted it by accident. or you created the canvas manually rather than through the Create menu

[wintry quarry]

Or copied your UI elements from another scene

[slender nymph]

or that, yeah

[lofty canopy]

Can you safely child the EventSystem to the canvas game object for the purpose of prefabbing?

[wintry quarry]

Depends

I wouldn't recommend it generally

It's very common to have more than one canvas in a scene

[lofty canopy]

And you only need one EventSystem?

[wintry quarry]

yes

you should only have one

[primal trench]

i know you can check if a collider enters a trigger area on a collider with entertrigger(), but ;lets say i want the trigger to check it instead, how would i do thay

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "i want the trigger to check it instead"?

[lofty canopy]

Do you have a nifty link that explain how the EventSystem can be modified or is that not necessary?

[wintry quarry]

You can use OnTriggerENter on either object involved

[primal trench]

oh you can? that's exactly what i wanted

thanks

[lofty canopy]

I could probably google it but if you know something that’s very concise that would be very much appreciated. 🙂

[wintry quarry]

what modifications are you talking about

[neon forum]

Eyy I did it and it added to the decklist

[lofty canopy]

Just understanding what you can do with EventSystem.

[wintry quarry]

You can write custom input modules and custom raycasters

there's not much you can do with the EventSystem directly

[lofty canopy]

Ah ok, fair enough. Thank you.

What would be the purpose of custom scripts? What would that achieve?

[wintry quarry]

scripts?

what kind of scripts?

[lofty canopy]

Modules and raycasters sorry.

[wintry quarry]

Maybe just check out the docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/InputModules.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/Raycasters.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/EventSystem.html

[lofty canopy]

Awesome, thank you. 🙏

[rough granite]

unity UI 3.0.0?

wanna explain what this means for the uninformed :?

[slender nymph]

that's just the version number for the UI package

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what you're asking to be honest

[rough granite]

so is it independent from the unity version?

[slender nymph]

yes, it has been for a couple of years now (assuming you mean the UI package being separate from the engine core)

[wintry quarry]

All packages have their own independent versions from the Unity version, yes.

[rough granite]

yeah sorry i was just curious cause i'd never heard of it and thought it was a seperate app to develop UI's

[lofty canopy]

What’s the new UI system called? Looks really customisable?

[rich adder]

UItoolkit

[slender nymph]

note that what praetor linked is just the regular Unity UI package, not UITK and is not new.

[rough granite]

is it any good, compared to just using TextMeshPro / unity's normal editor?

[rich adder]

I've only used for Editor

[lofty canopy]

It’s amazingly customisable but you need to know css and stuff.

[rich adder]

its very xml / css-ish friendly

but you can also just use c#

[slender nymph]

unfortunately still missing a few features that ugui supports though, like shader support

[rich adder]

yeah still doesn't feel 100 there yet..didnt they only recently put world canvas or somethin

[north kiln]

6.3 has shader support in the form of custom USS filters (which apply to stacks of UI using render textures), and afaik later in 6.3 they'll be releasing shader support generally

[halcyon moon]

guys why when i create a script called "GameManager" the script is in a setting logo theme and called a mono script?

unlike other scripts

[bright zodiac]

did they fix the z-order in uitk already?

[north kiln]

There's nothing to fix, if you are asking if custom z-index is a thing, then no

[bright zodiac]

ah so no z-order still.. sad face

[slender nymph]

the gear icon is just a quirk of older unity versions for scripts called GameManager. it was patched out in like 2022 or something like that. as for why it shows it is called a mono script when you select it, that's the asset type for all of your script files

[halcyon moon]

then no problems? just a visual bug?

[ocean matrix]

is there anything wrong?

[rich ice]

not a code question. although other than it being disabled, no

[teal viper]

Could you even disable transform..?

[ocean matrix]

wait your not allowed too?

[rough granite]

no, not sure how they did

[ocean matrix]

am i gonna get banned

[teal viper]

I thought it was physically not possible.

[ocean matrix]

my friends keep saying its wrong?

[teal viper]

No, but maybe provide a better explanation/question.

[wintry quarry]

photoshop is my guess

[halcyon moon]

guys why isn't my cube responding to the "invoke" function and the game just restart instantly?

[frosty hound]

Show what value you've set for the delay in the inspector

But also, you call Restart() before you invoke it, which is of course, instant.

[halcyon moon]

how so?

i set a value of 1 sec for the invoke

but also how did i call it early in the code?

[rough granite]

yeah but that happens after the function Restart() is called

[frosty hound]

Read the few lines you have?

You call Restart() and then call Invoke.

Also, setting a public to a default value in code isn't guarunteed, as the inspector value will override it. Regardless, that isn't the issue here (but a potential future one).

[halcyon moon]

well i just flipped them but nothing got fixed

[frosty hound]

Of course, because you're calling Restart()

Just think for a moment instead of flailing around. Why are you even calling Restart() in addition to your Invoke?

[halcyon moon]

well then how do like make them seperatly?

i still can't like form a proper code by myself yk

i just started learning

[rough granite]

just remove the Restart(); line

[halcyon moon]

and it well just work?

but how will the line get called?

[rough granite]

the invoke function

[frosty hound]

When you use Invoke it calls the function you typed in there, after the amouint of time you specified. That's its purpose.

[halcyon moon]

ahhhh

now i understand

[rough granite]

thats what it's there for cause unlike coroutine or async / await it doesn't pause that function from continuing

[halcyon moon]

yep it worked

[sour fulcrum]

Imagine telling your friend to come help with something then immediately telling him to come help in 5 minutes

[halcyon moon]

sorry for my lack of braincells

but yk smth new everyday

[sour fulcrum]

If your trying to learn there’s never a need to apologise 😄

[halcyon moon]

ur right

thanks also to you guys

[rough granite]

well only if you are actively trying there's some (realistically most) that just ignore what you tell them cause it isn't what they want

[sour fulcrum]

imo its pretty easy to tell if someone is trying to understand what their being told

[halcyon moon]

i will try from now on to like read the code and understand it

[tawny mortar]

I been blessed by the coding gods because unity decided to not give me a error in the last 10 minutes

[glad shore]

im with u on this

[balmy vortex]

Hey so like I need to make the fireball prefabs I spawn come out slightly infront of the player so it doesn't push them (like in the video vvvv) but I'm not sure how to actually get the direction of the camera to know where "infront of the player" is

tldr; the bullet pushes the player when shot in certain directions. bad.

[lofty canopy]

position of the fireball should spawn from the player. You can add a empty gameObject child to the player and put it offset infront of the player and use that as the position to Instantiate.

@balmy vortex

That way when the player rotates the empty gameObject (call it weaponSpawn?) will rotate and remain in front of the player.

Also, I'd like to recommend this documentation for you regarding something else you might find interesting.

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-object-pooling

[balmy vortex]

how do I actually get the position of that object specifically though?

cuz like rn I'm just using the players position since the script is technically a child of it

(https://paste.mod.gg/nmtwrckbvijr/0)

[lofty canopy]

What is PlayerSpells attached to?

[naive pawn]

have a serialized field of type Transform and assign that as an anchor

[lofty canopy]

[SerializeField] private Transform weaponSpawn;

Then go back to unity and drag and drop the weaponSpawn gameobject in the new field for PlayerSpells.cs.